Is it worth learning and migrating to Flakes as of November 2021?

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  • rfcs

    The Nix community RFCs (by NixOS)

  • What makes you think so ? The only actual issue I had with flakes was the inability to import relative path flakerefs from the nix shell (which... is really easily solved, and may not actually be considered an issue). Flake semantic has pretty much been set in stone for the time I used it. It seemed pretty stable before the nix 2.4 release already, at least to me (I haven't noticed any real breaking change relevant to my use cases apart from the nix shell/nix run refactor), and with 2.4 I guess it's going to be even better. I don't expect the cli to change much (unless I've missed an announcement?), nor the way flakes work to have any breaking change (except maybe RFC 45, which will have some impact on a large number of flakes, even though it doesn't directly involves flakes).

  • solana-nix

    Discontinued The Solana CLI tools packaged up with Nix

  • I didn't really have any noteworthy derivations before flakes so there was nothing for me to port and all the flakes I now have (e.g., https://github.com/cideM/solana-nix or https://github.com/cideM/visual-studio-code-insiders-nix/) don't do anything that's particularly fancy.

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    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

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  • visual-studio-code-insiders-nix

    Discontinued The latest Visual Studio Code Insiders build updated daily

  • I didn't really have any noteworthy derivations before flakes so there was nothing for me to port and all the flakes I now have (e.g., https://github.com/cideM/solana-nix or https://github.com/cideM/visual-studio-code-insiders-nix/) don't do anything that's particularly fancy.

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